20/20 Money Episode #329 – Edging In-House vs Outsourcing: The Economics, Trade-Offs, and Data An Optometric Practice Needs to Measure with Drs. Jennifer Stewart, OD & Sam Hornberger, OD

Welcome to another Episode of 20/20 Money!

My guests on today’s show are Drs. Jennifer Stewart & Sam Hornberger, both private practice owners in their respective practices.

Sam and Jennifer join me on the show to talk about a topic that admittedly, in over 300 episodes of 20/20 Money, I haven’t talked about yet: edging and the decisions around whether to bring edging in-house or continue to outsource it to your lab. We talk through how each of them made the decision to bring edging in-house—Sam making the decision after years of outsourcing it to a lab and Jennifer making the decision within the first year of launching her cold start practice. They give a peek behind the curtains on how vision plans influence the decision, the specific edgers each of them have in their practice, the economic benefits they’ve experienced, and how they use it as a unique differentiator and value-add to their respective patient bases.

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And with that introduction, I hope you enjoy my conversation with Drs. Sam Hornberger & Jennifer Stewart, OD.

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